St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1887-01-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

drunken norDeman who rode through
the house.-Larcdo fTex.) Times.
Arizona has but ten counties, and
Pima is the oldest one Of them all. |,
was settled by Europeans. and its early
history makes up the annals of Ari.
iona for more than $50 years.
The Fish Commission at Washing.
ton has giant octopus. which meas
ures five feet across its body. 1t was
captured in the Atlantic one hundred
miles northeast of Cape Henry. BY the
Fish Commissioners steamer Albatross.
| AT the present moment, 80 saws m
English paper. fortune-telling is one Of
the most fourishing systems Of i'm.
posture in that country, and there il
scarcely town or village without its
resident or visiting cheat of this do
scription.
There are living in Clearfield
County. Pennsylvania, . man and his
two sons who are married to three
sisters. and the old man is married to
the youngest sister. Some Of the chill
dren don't know their uncles from
their grandfather. -Bdttimors Ameri-
can.
"A lady named Augustine Ahumada
has died in Santiago. Chill. at the age
of one hundred and fifteen years. and
ut Talca Mrs. Juana Gatica has died.
aged one hundred and thirty years.
The latter leaves two sons, one eighty
eight and the other ninety-five years of
age.
-Englishmen from Britain and the
colonies are cmigrating to South
America rapidly. and taking up govern
ment lands in large tracts along the
river La Plata and other localities. and
engaging in raising cattle. mining. etc.
while there are very few Americans in
the whole country.
1t isn't always best to be entirely
satisfied with every thing. Mother"
said . young lady. recently. chow came
you to marry such very plain. unpre-
tentious man rs father?" IF had
known that his daughter would ever
have asked such question l presume l
should have hesitated." ..fhen YOU
are not satisfied" mot entirely. I'd
most wish that our daughters had been
al sons.-Hartford Post.
Once . month the members of tho
New York Beefsteak Club, with lOos-
ened Wristbands and collars, gather
around long table and cast lots for
the prize beefsteak-a double porter
house. weighing never less than two
and half nor more than three pounds.
Then. with interested and often with
envious eyes, they watch the lucky
winner Is he tackles it. II he eats it
to the bone they rejoice. because he
is an honor to the club: but il he fails
they rejoice also. for he must then
order q basket of wine for their benefit.
N. r. Mail.
A Trenton (N. j. man is the
owner of colonial copper penny,
coined in 1886, and which he claims il
the only known specimen of the kind
in existence. On one side is . rude
figure Of an eagle which looks, how
ever, more like . representation Of the
tabled griffin species. Around this
nondescript bird are the words az
Pluribus Unum." On the reverse is =
figure Of Goddess of Liberty holding
in one hand the scales Of justice and in
the other liberty pole. from which
hangs a flag; around this Is inscribed
''Immunis Columbia.
An elephant attached to circus,
which had just concluded an engage
ment in San Francisco, ''cut up some
high old shines" the other day while
being conveyed across the bay. After
smashing q door the animal turned its
attention to . deck hand. whom it
knocked into the hold of the vessel
The bar-roOm was next visited. and
after mixing drinks, bottles. furniture,
etc. breaking the leg and several ribs
Of an assistant keeper and slightly in
juring another. the infuriated beast
was chained. Twelve hundred dollars
will about cover the damagc DONE
San Francisco Chronicle.
-Zenas Caldwell was the first man
in New England who received = collegi-
ate education with view to entering
the Methodist ministry. He went to
Bowdoin College. and his room mate at
one time was Franklin Pierce. Mr..
Caldwell was a great mathematician.
and it is related Of him that he solved
a problem in algebra which Franklin
Pierce could not do to save his life.
But Pierce became President of the
United States and Caldwell didn't.
This is not . good story to tell to
schoolboys, perhaps.-Le,ciston Me-
Journal.
james B. Kelly, . Pittsburgh mo
chanic. has fallen heir to . German
estate and title of nobility by the death
of his uncle, the late Duke of Gas
come, Of the former French province
Of Lorraine. The estate was given by
Bonaparte to his grand uncle.
Albert Mcmahon. one of his soldiers.
When the Province of Lorraine passed
afterward into the German power the
estate was not c0nfiscated. Old McMa-
hon died in 1870, leaving the estate
and title to his son Albert, end the lat |
ter died in July last. Search for his |
heirs has just been successful. Pits.
bHrgh Post.